#commanding respect

[theluckygirlblog]

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[motivationwisdomalways]

Powerful Positive Affirmations to Improve Your Life | 30 Powerful Daily Affirmations

[bihar]

Gaining respect from everyone is an ongoing process that requires consistent effort, self-awareness, and a genuine commitment to treating others with dignity and respect.

[commander-fox-enthusiasts]

Ventress: *holding Fox hostage*

Fox: *playing with his shoes* would it bother you if I took a nap right now?

Ventress: yes, it would.. why would you?.

Fox: Ugh, I was on the last part of a hundred hour shift.. and I’m supposed to be meeting my vode for drinks after this- it’s been too long since I’ve gotten to hang out with them, but I didn’t want to be grumpy..

Ventress: …….there is so much I’m trying to understand.. you think you’re making it out of this alive?

Fox: yes. Next question.

Ventress: oh- uh… hundred hour shift? Isn’t that like… just over four days?

Fox: *nodding* yeah, 100 continuous hours, hence why I’m tired.

Ventress:

Ventress: yeah, alright, take a nap. I’ll let you know if action comes our way.

Fox: *already flopping over* yeah, thank you.

[eloquentsisyphianturmoil]

Maedhros’ abdication is so funny because every feanorian was probably salivating over his return like oOOooOoh Nelyo’s back, oh yeah we got our King now you see what he’ll do to you Nolofinwe he’ll really put you in your place huh buddy, good old Nelyo’s not gonna stand for this disrespect he’ll show you the crown belongs with us. And then

[windienine]

hitting my faves with the Fursona Beam

[the-last-butter]

HC they first met a year or two after Yelan got her vision; post fighting the in abyss but when Kaeya was still navigating his identity from Kaeya, Brother and Right hand of Diluc Ragnvindr to Kaeya Alberich, Cavalry Captain and Quarter master of the Knights of Favonius.

[tiredandoptimistic]

Radar really is in such an interesting position relative to the 4077. The rest of them are doctors. Hawkeye frequently bemoans his role as "weapons repair" and is clearly uncomfortable with fixing people up so they can go back and get shot, but he's still fundamentally only engaging with the war as a healer. When he's off duty (and even while he's working), Hawkeye is able to focus his energy on "the war against the war" by throwing parties and pulling pranks. He takes every opportunity to show his disrespect for the whole military machine, and only plays by their rules when it goes along with his moral imperative to heal the dying.

Radar, on the other hand, is the motor that keeps MASH running. He helps Hawkeye and the others with their schemes, but he also has to be the one to deal with the fallout. When Hawkeye gets his shift as "Commander Pierce," Radar is the one frantically trying to get him to actually fill out the required paperwork, because Hawkeye's "this is dumb and I won't engage with it" attitude to the army doesn't work for someone in an organizational position. The rest of them turn up their noses at army bureaucracy, but Radar is the one to understand how it all works and get them what they want despite the layers of red tape. He has to be the guy delivering bad news and sneaking around to steal people's stoves, and he isn't choosing to do it but it still has to get done. He's the one who announces incoming choppers, meaning that he basically always has to be the person to spoil everyone else's day. Fun's over, Radar's here. His name is literally a direct symbol of his role as a harbinger. He isn't the one responsible though. If he wasn't there to sound the alarm, there'd be just as many wounded and even less time to prepare.

He's got a bit of separation between himself and the casualties (unlike the doctors who are literally digging around in blood and guts for twelve hours at a time), but his position as company clerk means that he's also unable to truly clock out. Radar literally sleeps in his office, because it's his entire life. He's always going to be the guy with a foot in reality who tempers the officers' wackiness. Even when he got offered a ticket home, his first instinct was to turn it down because he didn't think that the 4077th could function without him.

This is significant to me because of how it reflects on the characters role in the war overall. Hawkeye is able to act like he's separate from the military, but he's sometimes forced to reckon with the fact that he's a cog in the machine like everyone else. Radar is often forced to serve as the hand of the army in the 4077th, but his job of keeping things running smoothly does just as much to save lives as any of the doctors. They're all soldiers who have to play by the army's rules to some extent if they want to keep anybody safe.

[inkedberries]

the moment the members of the resistance hear yoichi call kudou 'my hero' they all just ran with it and start calling kudou 'hero' to tease him and that's his call sign now i guess

[carrion-art]

MY BOYYYYY

[motivationwisdomalways]

Building Respect: Strategies for Earning Esteem and Influence

[blanceyblance]

Lance is such an interesting character to me in part because of how the narrative wants to portray him to the point it becomes contradictory.

His "arc" is supposed to be "cocky and immature teenager grows from his need for glory into a reliable team member"

And he does! He becomes Keith's right hand man, taking charge in battle, covering the team's backs and becoming an emotional support for other members when the time was needed.

But he is also a Comedic Relief™

Other characters have comedic relief moments too, like Hunk's love for food, Pidge's excitement about tech, Keith being socially awkward, etc.

And as aggravating as Hunk's fat jokes can be they don't contradict the fact that he is a brilliant engineer and became a brave paladin. Keith's social awkwardness doesn't contradict the fact that he became a capable leader.

But then you have Pidge and Hunk, making fun of Lance being "naturally dumb", and then a space deity calling him "the dumb one"one moment then following Lance's orders in battle and having him give emotional speeches to others the other.

The writers want us to take him seriously and see he is growing only to make fun of him when its needed for a laugh.

I feel the episode The Grudge is a good example of this:

Lance finds a way to find where they left their Lions.

Hunk and Allura seem impressed but Pidge dismisses it.

That would be the end of it until later when Veronica is talking with "Keith" (actually a hacker pretending to be him) and the says "Lance has it figured out", Veronica then in a sarcastic way says "Lance, the navigation genius".

Keith agrees and that's what clues them about something being wrong.

Is it a joke about Keith being openly nice to Lance? A joke about Lance's navigation skills?

Either way, the joke is at his expense, even when early in the episode we see him actually suggesting a way to correctly navigate.

In the end what I'm trying to say is, that the writers want to have their cake and eat it too. Showing Lance growing and being capable but also making fun of him and not really having that much respect for his character.

[ominouspuff]

Downtime with the disaster lineage

[rochenn]

KAMA!!

[luna-sheep]

Bingmei isn't less powerful, dangerous or ale to intimidate than Bingge is, he just retained his ability to see people as people and be genuinely kind and loving.

Just because he shows vulnerability to SQQ, the man he loves and trusts, doesn't mean he isn't just as able to be ruthless, violent, and cut-throat cunning when he needs to be.

IMO Binghe of SV being able to be more of a whole person, not having to pretend to be invulnerable and adhere to toxic masculine values all the time, while still being just as strong and capable and as Bingge (and healthier and happier too) is the point.

Bingge is the more "pathetic" of the two.

[deep-space-lines]

look, I love Garrus but his ME1 characterization makes me wanna do this to him